Jack Tame

Host and Writer at Newstalk ZB

Columnist at New Zealand Herald

Host, Q+A at TVNZ

Uncouth eyebrows and an awkward running technique.

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Jack Tame: Travelling with a baby... what could go wrong?

1 week ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

Everyone says the best time to travel with a baby is before it can walk. Makes sense, when you think about it. Most toddlers, once they’ve learnt to trot around the place, live for nothing more. All they want to do is walk. In fact, if you think about it, you really don’t want to get close to even blurring the line between rolling and crawling and waddling away. The moment your child is old enough and independently spirited enough to drag themselves around, you’re done for.
Jack Tame: What skills should we actually be teaching?

2 weeks ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

I still remember the exact seat where I was sitting. It was 20 years ago, and I was primed for one of the key exams in my tertiary education. I’d passed Teeline shorthand at 40 words a minute. 50 words, 60 words, 70 words. To progress on my journalism course and ultimately earn a degree I had one final challenge: I had to pass a Teeline shorthand exam at 80 words a minute.
Jack Tame: Trump and Musk's alliance is imploding in the most spectacular fashion

3 weeks ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

Who could possibly, in their wildest dreams, ever have imagined it? Who could possibly have foreseen that the world’s wealthiest man and the world’s most powerful politician might blow up their bromance in the most spectacular fashion? Elon on Don? Feuding? Nooooo. Say it ain’t so! The curious thing is the pair of them do have a few qualities in common. Hypocrisy, for starters.
Jack Tame: Should superannuation be means-tested too?

1 month ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

It’s one of the curious things about the structure of modern liberal democracies. Whether its sharemarkets or political cycles or even media coverage, a lot of the big forces that shape our society are influenced by short-term incentives. It gets us into all sorts of pickles. Take the Three Waters and the crisis with water infrastructure in New Zealand.
Jack Tame: Auckland FC's hustling has paid off

1 month ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

210 days ago, I was blinking into the sun at Go Media Stadium as Auckland FC strode out onto the pitch for their first-ever A-League game. The club was owned by a billionaire and the team’s style of play wasn’t immediately alluring – the very first goal in the club’s professional history came courtesy of an opposition player. I knew about two of the players and had to keep cross-checking the action on the pitch with my gameday programme.
Jack Tame: Eyewitnesses to history

1 month ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

The centre of the world. It’s a funny concept, really, because on a planet with 8 billion people, the world’s attention never settles on any one event or thing for much more than a moment. Most of the time you would probably argue that the world’s attention is divided and scattered. It takes an historic moment, something really big, truly significant, to hone those 8 billion sets of eyes to one point.
Jack Tame: Nothing lasts forever

1 month ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

I was taken aback by how long it had been since I’d last come to town. It’s amazing how time creeps up on you like that. One minute you’re at Grandma and Grandad’s place every few months, knocking around with your siblings. The next you’re going through Grandad’s drawers, packing him a bag of his most precious possessions. The next, you realise it’s three years since you even drove down his street. State Highway One was an absolute shocker.
Jack Tame: My verdict on becoming a one car household

2 months ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

I had a funny entry in my calendar this week that took me a moment to decipher. ‘Mava 1C anniversary’ it said. My heart skipped a beat. Anniversary?! Oh, hang on. No. Stand down. Forget romance. What my entry was telling me I’d just reached the anniversary for this very radio show, in which I’d shared with you our decision to become a one car household.
Jack Tame: The miracles and mysteries much closer to home

2 months ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

The pictures made it look like a parody. Eleven minutes after taking off from a West Texas launch site, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space capsule touched down with its all-female celebrity crew. Bezos opened the capsule door and greeted his fiancé. One by one the women filed out, each in their snazzy blue, flared space outfits. Having technically been in space for just four minutes, the popstar Katy Perry knelt down and kissed the ground.
Jack Tame: An anticlimactic end to the Treaty Principles Bill

2 months ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

In the end it was kind of an anticlimax. After almost 18 months of anger, obfuscation, hīkoi and haka, and hundreds of thousands of submissions, the Treaty Principles Bill was voted down in fairly emphatic style. I suspect the majority of New Zealanders are so over it. Looking back, I’d say David Seymour and ACT largely got what they wanted. Te Pāti Māori were perhaps even greater political beneficiaries.